broadcastn.adv.adj.

Brit.

/ˈbrɔːdkɑːst/,

/ˈbrɔːdkast/, U.S.

/ˈbrɔdˌkæst/,

/ˈbrɑdˌkæst/

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly formed within English, by compounding. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: broad adj.¹, cast n.; broad adv., cast adj.²; broadcast v.

Etymology: As noun < broad adj.¹ + cast n.; compare broadcasting n. As adverb and adjective < broad adv. + cast adj.², and (in later use) probably partly also < broadcast, past participle of broadcast v.

A. n.

1. Agriculture. A method of sowing which involves scattering seeds over the whole surface of the soil, rather than sowing seeds in drills or rows; the action or an act of sowing seeds using this method. In early use frequently in prepositional phrases, following with, in.In quot. 1707 not as a fixed collocation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun] > other systems of sowing

clovering1652

broadcast1796

plumping1844

undersowing1960

zero tillage1963

sod planting1965

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 49 Some harrow their Ground over, and sow Wheat or Rye on it, with a broad cast.

1745 W. Ellis Agric. Improv'd I. June ii. 7 The rest of my Wheat-Big and Rye I sow'd in Broad-cast among my Corn where the Ground was good.

1796 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening xv. 324 At broad-cast hoe thin, and trample the seed in, with the feet.

1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxxx. 224 The corn has not been sown with broad-cast.

1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. iii. 50 The rate of seed to the acre..where broadcast is adopted.

1974 Shrubs & Vines for Northeastern Wildlife (Forest Service, U.S. Dept. Agric.) 148/2 After broadcast of seeds, the well-packed seedbed should be cultipacked.

2016 D. Franzen in A. Chatterjee & D. Clay Soil Fertility Managem. in Agroecosystems 23/2 Broadcast is only recommended if the P[hosphorus] will be incorporated into the soil.

a. The action of transmitting or disseminating audio or visual material (esp. radio or television programmes) by radio, television, the internet, etc., esp. as a means of mass communication to a large audience.Recorded earliest in wireless broadcast n.

ΚΠ

1914 Indianapolis Star 30 Nov. 2/4 The spread of official news by Wireless Broadcast over the globe for whomsoever can pick it up is a new method of political propaganda.

1926 Glasgow Herald 16 Nov. 9 The ban on the broadcast of controversial topics.

1999 F. Wynne tr. M. Houellebecq Atomised (2001) 31 His reputation reached new heights in 1959 with the broadcast of a short, bilious documentary about..the yéyé phenomenon.

2013 Radio Times 9 Nov. (South/West ed.) 133/1 Five years ago we asked whether he'd mind if we sent a radio car to Stourhead to record him describing the view in the late afternoon, for broadcast later in the 5pm darkness.

b. A transmission of audio or visual material by radio, television, or the internet, esp. as a mass communication to a large audience; a radio or television programme.Recorded earliest in radio broadcast n..See also news broadcast n., outside broadcast n., etc.

ΘΠ

society > communication > broadcasting > a broadcast programme or item > [noun]

transmission1907

broadcast1922

programme1922

edition1934

prog1937

1919 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. The object of this radio broadcast is to maintain the interest of radio amateurs and to train them in receiving code.

1926 J. Reith Diary 8 May (1975) i. 95 Everything was in order for the broadcast... The PM..has a voice test.

1937 Life 26 July 58/1 Both Bergen and Fields write their own dialog and some of it is ad-libbed during the broadcast.

1955 Times 10 May 10/3 Whether Sir Winston Churchill will make a sound or television broadcast for the Conservative Party.

1987 P. McCabe Bad News at Black Rock vii. 126 Over the course of the two-hour broadcast, her interviews..were seamless.

2002 Vanity Fair Jan. 55/4 Lehrer has resisted tarting up his nightly broadcast for PBS, keeping The Newshour an outpost of civility and international perspective.

2022 Guardian (Nexis) 21 May Osaka logged on to Instagram for an impromptu live broadcast with the simple aim of briefly revealing her new dog, Butta, to her fans.

B. adv.

1. Agriculture. Over the whole surface of the soil rather than in drills or rows. Chiefly in to sow (also scatter, etc.) broadcast.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > sow [verb (intransitive)] > other systems of sowing

to sow, scatter, throw, etc. broadcast1832

1727 R. Bradley Compl. Body Husbandry xii. 224 In Devonshire, and other places, where they sow pease.., they sow them broad-cast, which gains a great deal of ground.

1832 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. (ed. 2) 35 Seed sown either broadcast or in drills.

1861 Amer. Agriculturist Jan. 11/1 Let it [sc. lime] be first mixed with peat or clay, turf or other good soils, and after lying in heaps for a while, it may be spread on the land broadcast.

1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 568/1 In May..a nursery ground is ploughed three times, and the seed scattered broadcast.

1997 K. O'Riordan Boy in Moon vii. 118 He'd said that they would sow turnip seeds broadcast, over a very fine tilth, harrowed by Cathal a couple of days ago.

2. Over a wide or broad area; widely, broadly; so as to reach or tell a large number of people. Frequently with reference to the dissemination of publications, news, information, opinion, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > scatter broadcast

shedc1000

sprengeOE

discatterc1330

shatterc1330

sowa1387

spilla1400

shadec1425

sparklec1440

scatter?c1450

distribute?c1510

sparse?1550

to cast seed1577

bescatter1859

to sow, scatter, throw, etc. broadcast1874

1834 L. M. Sargent Addr. Temperance Soc. Harvard Univ. 23 If their patients are scattered broadcast, like my own.

1854 Harper's Mag. Dec. 119/1 It was at evening, and the Extras, in a moment, sowed the exciting news broadcast over the town.

1884 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 30 Dec. 3/8 These circulars are to be sent broadcast by telegraph to the press of the country.

1924 H. L. Osgood Amer. Colonies in 18th Cent. iii. 425 Whitefield began..flinging broadcast the charge that most of the New England clergy did not experimentally know Christ.

1956 E. McCourt Wooden Sword (1975) x. 147 Handkerchief thrown carelessly down,..maybe a half-mended garment strewn broadcast on the chesterfield.

1974 C. S. Griffin Univ. Kansas xxix. 589 Butler wrote and spread broadcast over the state a pamphlet stating that Fine Arts would have more than thirty classrooms and studios in the new building.

2012 Amer. Jrnl. Irish Stud. 9 56 If only the immigrant Irish could be broken out of their enclaves in eastern cities, separated from the bad company of their friends and their priests, and scattered broadcast across America's vast prairies and plains.

C. adj.

1. Agriculture.

a. Employing the method of, or used for, scattering seed, fertilizer, etc., over the whole surface of the soil.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [adjective] > sown > other systems of sowing

thick-sown1683

broadcast1767

placement-drilled1960

1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Mar. ii. 21 Many poor Farmers, who sow their Ground with any of those Corn or Grass Seeds in the random or promiscuous broad-cast Way.

1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 115 The sowing is either in the broad-cast mode, or by drilling.

1831 J. Sinclair Corr. II. 424 No broad-cast sowing can equal it.

1853 Catal. Royal Agric. Soc. Show 76 The best broadcast manure distributor exhibited.

1999 BBC Gardeners' World Apr. 87/4 For covering large areas, such as lawns, use broadcast sowing.

2003 Field & Stream Oct. 70/1 He was sowing the plot with a broadcast spreader.

b. Of soil, seed, etc.: sown or treated using the broadcast method ( C. 1a); scattered over the whole surface of the soil.

ΚΠ

1764 J. Randall Semi-Virgilian Husbandry 143 The broad-cast crop will, in like circumstances, always exceed the drilled crop.

1807 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Essex I. iv. 100 I do not know that a drilled acre is superior in produce, at first, to a broad-cast acre.

1842 E. J. Lance Cottage Farmer 19 On broad-cast turnips, thirty bushels of lime per acre, was the quantity used.

1941 Jrnl. Min. Agric. 48 186 A combine drill is now generally accepted as being superior to a seed drill and a broadcast fertilizer used separately.

1995 N. Hudson Soil Conservation (ed. 3) xi. 267 In the case of row crops only part of the soil is covered, and in the case of broadcast crops such as small grains, the cover may be uniform but is not dense.

2. figurative.

†a. As if scattering seed broadcast. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1785 E. Burke Speech Nabob of Arcot's Private Debts 8 With a broad-cast swing of his arm, he squanders over his Indian field a sum, far greater than the clear produce of the whole hereditary revenue of the kingdom of Ireland.

b. Scattered or spread widely; extensively or publicly disseminated.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [adjective] > spread or diffused > widely

wideOE

rampanta1540

widespread1582

cheverel1583

worldwide1602

broada1616

ubiquitary1652

wide-spreading1655

broadcast1785

country-wide1845

statewide1848

nationwide1891

planetwide1920

society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > [adjective] > published or spread abroad

publisheda1400

divulgatea1440

well-sunga1450

vulgate1513

promulgate1526

blazed1590

divulged1607

frequent1623

promulgated1657

announced1769

publicized1822

divulgated1842

outblown1851

vulgateda1861

circulated1867

broadcast1878

well-publicized1917

1825 J. Bentham Indications Respecting Ld. Eldon 78 Of this broadcast dissemination of uncertainty, one obvious cause may naturally be found in the profit made in the two great shops.

1843 J. B. Aycrigg Rep. Coast Surv. 77 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (27th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Doc. 170) It has pleased Mr. Aycrigg..to throw out the broadcast accusation, that I was mentally and physically incompetent to that task.

1878 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xviii. 135 The obscure story of the arrest and death of Gloucester will, it may be safely assumed, never be cleared up; and the depth of the darkness that covers it has inevitably been made the occasion of broadcast accusations and suspicions of every sort.

1909 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 7 Jan. 5/2 There was a manifest desire..to inaugurate definite measures for the broadcast advertising of the advantages of Waterloo as a manufacturing, investment and residential center.

2009 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 7 Feb. 100 At least one broadcast rumour has suggested that Ponting, too, has dressingroom issues.

a. Transmitted or disseminated by radio, television, etc., esp. as a mass communication to a large audience.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > broadcasting > [adjective]

broadcast1922

broadcasted1923

transmissional1930

1922 Sandusky (Ohio) Star-Jrnl. 8 June 2/3 Rice..sees that the broadcast reports are received properly by farmers with radio receiving sets.

1936 Discovery Apr. 124/2 Mr Thornton's broadcast talks on exotic music are widely known.

1989 J. Honey Does Accent Matter? iii. 44 In a broadcast interview in 1981 he discussed the work of particular novelists.

2013 Oldie Apr. 10/1 The ASA says it can only look at the content of individual published or broadcast ads.

2017 Reason Mar. 56/1 Over the last few decades, as media markets segmented, the ratings for the three traditional broadcast news programs have declined.

b. That transmits or broadcasts audio or visual material (esp. radio or television programmes) by radio, television, etc., esp. as a mass communication to a large audience. Also designating a person who works in radio or television broadcasting.

1922 Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 70/1 He has given us the ideal radio broadcast receiver.

1924 Washington Post 19 July 17/5 ‘The Radio Telescope or Directional Receiving’ by Dr Alfred N. Goldsmith, chief broadcast engineer.

1944 Proc. IRE 32 668/1 Design of directional antennas for broadcast stations to prevent skywave interference to another station.

1993 Paragraph Summer 40/2 Hay, a former broadcast journalist, loosely chronicles her experiences travelling in Latin America.

2012 N.Y. Mag. 21 May 60/1 Comedy, particularly on the broadcast networks, is..attracting the kind of younger audiences that advertisers lust after.

2018 W. Davies Nerv. States (2019) vii. 200 Mass democracy in the age of broadcast media involved grand public messages.

Compounds

broadcast storm n. Computing (in a network) an excess of automated transmissions and responses that leads to degradation of performance.

1988 AUUGN Oct. 155/1 A classic broadcast storm occurs when a large number of hosts respond almost simultaneously to a broadcast packet.

2012 MX (Melbourne) (Nexis) 30 Oct. (News section) 2 Our investigation has identified a network switch failure that caused a broadcast storm (that) creates countless transmissions, which, in the case of CityLink, utilised all the available computer capacity within the IT network.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022).

broadcastv.

Etymology: Formed as broad adj. + cast v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbroadcast.

1. To scatter (seed, etc.) abroad with the hand.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > sow seed [verb (transitive)]

sowc1000

besowc1175

inseminate1623

to put in1657

sprain1744

shed1770

to get in1771

seminate1796

broadcast1807

seed1814

1807 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Essex I. vii. 333 They sow..the barley..spraining the first [half]; and broad-casting the second.

1836 Montgomery Poet's Portfolio 248 Sow in the morn thy seed..Broad-cast it o'er the land.

1846 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 7 ii. 591 It is preferable to broadcast the guano.

2. figurative. To scatter or disseminate widely.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publish or spread abroad [verb (transitive)]

sowc888

blowc1275

dispeple1297

to do abroadc1300

fame1303

publyc1350

defamea1382

publisha1382

open?1387

proclaima1393

slandera1400

spreada1400

abroachc1400

throwc1400

to give outa1425

promote?a1425

noisec1425

publicc1430

noisec1440

divulgea1464

to put outc1475

skail1487

to come out witha1500

bruit1525

bruita1529

to bear out1530

divulgate1530

promulgate1530

propale?1530

ventilate1530

provulgate1535

sparple1536

sparse1536

promulge1539

disperse1548

publicate1548

forthtell1549

hurly-burly?1550

propagate1554

to set abroada1555

utter1561

to set forth1567

blaze1570

evulgate1570

scatter1576

rear?1577

to carry about1585

pervulgate1586

celebrate?1596

propalate1598

vent1602

evulge1611

to give forth1611

impublic1628

ventilate1637

disseminate1643

expose1644

emit1650

to put about1664

to send abroad1681

to get abroad1688

to take out1697

advertise1710

forward1713

to set abouta1715

circulate1780

broadcast1829

vent1832

vulgate1851

debit1879

float1883

1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm iv. 270 The doctrine of missionary zeal..has been broad-cast over Christendom.

1880 J. Ruskin Lett. to Clergy 369 Showing his detestation of the sale of indulgences by broadcasting these gratis from his pulpit.

3. To disseminate (a message, news, a musical or dramatic performance, or any audible or visible matter) from a radio or television transmitting station to the receiving sets of listeners and viewers; said also of a speaker or performer. Also absol.Inflected past tense and past participle broadcast (cf. broadcast adj. 3); occasionally broadcasted.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > broadcasting > [verb (transitive)]

broadcast1921

programme1930

air1933

1921 Discovery Apr. 92/1 The [wireless] station at Poldhu is used partly for broadcasting Press and other messages to ships, that is, sending out messages without receiving replies.

1922 Daily Mail 8 Aug. 7/3 The largest and most powerful wireless station that can broadcast to the world.

1922 Daily Mail 11 Nov. 7 Government arrangements for broadcasting.

1924 Daily News 13 Dec. 6/7 The speech broadcast to our homes to-day.

1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xvi. 188 Coon-Sanders..and Henry Halstead broadcasted over the radio.

Derivatives

ˈbroadcasted adj. = broadcast adj. 3. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > broadcasting > [adjective]

broadcast1922

broadcasted1923

transmissional1930

1923 Glasgow Herald 3 Feb. 8 In cities the ‘broadcasted’ entertainment can never prove a serious rival to the theatre and concert hall.

1924 Glasgow Herald 28 Aug. 7 The crowning event was the broadcasted evening service at Spurgeon's Tabernacle on Sunday.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	broadcast
释义	broadcastn.adv.adj. Brit. /ˈbrɔːdkɑːst/, /ˈbrɔːdkast/, U.S. /ˈbrɔdˌkæst/, /ˈbrɑdˌkæst/ Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly formed within English, by compounding. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: broad adj.¹, cast n.; broad adv., cast adj.²; broadcast v. Etymology: As noun < broad adj.¹ + cast n.; compare broadcasting n. As adverb and adjective < broad adv. + cast adj.², and (in later use) probably partly also < broadcast, past participle of broadcast v. A. n. 1. Agriculture. A method of sowing which involves scattering seeds over the whole surface of the soil, rather than sowing seeds in drills or rows; the action or an act of sowing seeds using this method. In early use frequently in prepositional phrases, following with, in.In quot. 1707 not as a fixed collocation. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun] > other systems of sowing clovering1652 broadcast1796 plumping1844 undersowing1960 zero tillage1963 sod planting1965 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 49 Some harrow their Ground over, and sow Wheat or Rye on it, with a broad cast. 1745 W. Ellis Agric. Improv'd I. June ii. 7 The rest of my Wheat-Big and Rye I sow'd in Broad-cast among my Corn where the Ground was good. 1796 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening xv. 324 At broad-cast hoe thin, and trample the seed in, with the feet. 1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxxx. 224 The corn has not been sown with broad-cast. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. iii. 50 The rate of seed to the acre..where broadcast is adopted. 1974 Shrubs & Vines for Northeastern Wildlife (Forest Service, U.S. Dept. Agric.) 148/2 After broadcast of seeds, the well-packed seedbed should be cultipacked. 2016 D. Franzen in A. Chatterjee & D. Clay Soil Fertility Managem. in Agroecosystems 23/2 Broadcast is only recommended if the P[hosphorus] will be incorporated into the soil. 2. a. The action of transmitting or disseminating audio or visual material (esp. radio or television programmes) by radio, television, the internet, etc., esp. as a means of mass communication to a large audience.Recorded earliest in wireless broadcast n. ΚΠ 1914 Indianapolis Star 30 Nov. 2/4 The spread of official news by Wireless Broadcast over the globe for whomsoever can pick it up is a new method of political propaganda. 1926 Glasgow Herald 16 Nov. 9 The ban on the broadcast of controversial topics. 1999 F. Wynne tr. M. Houellebecq Atomised (2001) 31 His reputation reached new heights in 1959 with the broadcast of a short, bilious documentary about..the yéyé phenomenon. 2013 Radio Times 9 Nov. (South/West ed.) 133/1 Five years ago we asked whether he'd mind if we sent a radio car to Stourhead to record him describing the view in the late afternoon, for broadcast later in the 5pm darkness. b. A transmission of audio or visual material by radio, television, or the internet, esp. as a mass communication to a large audience; a radio or television programme.Recorded earliest in radio broadcast n..See also news broadcast n., outside broadcast n., etc. ΘΠ society > communication > broadcasting > a broadcast programme or item > [noun] transmission1907 broadcast1922 programme1922 edition1934 prog1937 1919 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. The object of this radio broadcast is to maintain the interest of radio amateurs and to train them in receiving code. 1926 J. Reith Diary 8 May (1975) i. 95 Everything was in order for the broadcast... The PM..has a voice test. 1937 Life 26 July 58/1 Both Bergen and Fields write their own dialog and some of it is ad-libbed during the broadcast. 1955 Times 10 May 10/3 Whether Sir Winston Churchill will make a sound or television broadcast for the Conservative Party. 1987 P. McCabe Bad News at Black Rock vii. 126 Over the course of the two-hour broadcast, her interviews..were seamless. 2002 Vanity Fair Jan. 55/4 Lehrer has resisted tarting up his nightly broadcast for PBS, keeping The Newshour an outpost of civility and international perspective. 2022 Guardian (Nexis) 21 May Osaka logged on to Instagram for an impromptu live broadcast with the simple aim of briefly revealing her new dog, Butta, to her fans. B. adv. 1. Agriculture. Over the whole surface of the soil rather than in drills or rows. Chiefly in to sow (also scatter, etc.) broadcast. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > sow [verb (intransitive)] > other systems of sowing to sow, scatter, throw, etc. broadcast1832 1727 R. Bradley Compl. Body Husbandry xii. 224 In Devonshire, and other places, where they sow pease.., they sow them broad-cast, which gains a great deal of ground. 1832 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. (ed. 2) 35 Seed sown either broadcast or in drills. 1861 Amer. Agriculturist Jan. 11/1 Let it [sc. lime] be first mixed with peat or clay, turf or other good soils, and after lying in heaps for a while, it may be spread on the land broadcast. 1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 568/1 In May..a nursery ground is ploughed three times, and the seed scattered broadcast. 1997 K. O'Riordan Boy in Moon vii. 118 He'd said that they would sow turnip seeds broadcast, over a very fine tilth, harrowed by Cathal a couple of days ago. 2. Over a wide or broad area; widely, broadly; so as to reach or tell a large number of people. Frequently with reference to the dissemination of publications, news, information, opinion, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > scatter broadcast shedc1000 sprengeOE discatterc1330 shatterc1330 sowa1387 spilla1400 shadec1425 sparklec1440 scatter?c1450 distribute?c1510 sparse?1550 to cast seed1577 bescatter1859 to sow, scatter, throw, etc. broadcast1874 1834 L. M. Sargent Addr. Temperance Soc. Harvard Univ. 23 If their patients are scattered broadcast, like my own. 1854 Harper's Mag. Dec. 119/1 It was at evening, and the Extras, in a moment, sowed the exciting news broadcast over the town. 1884 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 30 Dec. 3/8 These circulars are to be sent broadcast by telegraph to the press of the country. 1924 H. L. Osgood Amer. Colonies in 18th Cent. iii. 425 Whitefield began..flinging broadcast the charge that most of the New England clergy did not experimentally know Christ. 1956 E. McCourt Wooden Sword (1975) x. 147 Handkerchief thrown carelessly down,..maybe a half-mended garment strewn broadcast on the chesterfield. 1974 C. S. Griffin Univ. Kansas xxix. 589 Butler wrote and spread broadcast over the state a pamphlet stating that Fine Arts would have more than thirty classrooms and studios in the new building. 2012 Amer. Jrnl. Irish Stud. 9 56 If only the immigrant Irish could be broken out of their enclaves in eastern cities, separated from the bad company of their friends and their priests, and scattered broadcast across America's vast prairies and plains. C. adj. 1. Agriculture. a. Employing the method of, or used for, scattering seed, fertilizer, etc., over the whole surface of the soil. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [adjective] > sown > other systems of sowing thick-sown1683 broadcast1767 placement-drilled1960 1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Mar. ii. 21 Many poor Farmers, who sow their Ground with any of those Corn or Grass Seeds in the random or promiscuous broad-cast Way. 1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 115 The sowing is either in the broad-cast mode, or by drilling. 1831 J. Sinclair Corr. II. 424 No broad-cast sowing can equal it. 1853 Catal. Royal Agric. Soc. Show 76 The best broadcast manure distributor exhibited. 1999 BBC Gardeners' World Apr. 87/4 For covering large areas, such as lawns, use broadcast sowing. 2003 Field & Stream Oct. 70/1 He was sowing the plot with a broadcast spreader. b. Of soil, seed, etc.: sown or treated using the broadcast method ( C. 1a); scattered over the whole surface of the soil. ΚΠ 1764 J. Randall Semi-Virgilian Husbandry 143 The broad-cast crop will, in like circumstances, always exceed the drilled crop. 1807 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Essex I. iv. 100 I do not know that a drilled acre is superior in produce, at first, to a broad-cast acre. 1842 E. J. Lance Cottage Farmer 19 On broad-cast turnips, thirty bushels of lime per acre, was the quantity used. 1941 Jrnl. Min. Agric. 48 186 A combine drill is now generally accepted as being superior to a seed drill and a broadcast fertilizer used separately. 1995 N. Hudson Soil Conservation (ed. 3) xi. 267 In the case of row crops only part of the soil is covered, and in the case of broadcast crops such as small grains, the cover may be uniform but is not dense. 2. figurative. †a. As if scattering seed broadcast. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1785 E. Burke Speech Nabob of Arcot's Private Debts 8 With a broad-cast swing of his arm, he squanders over his Indian field a sum, far greater than the clear produce of the whole hereditary revenue of the kingdom of Ireland. b. Scattered or spread widely; extensively or publicly disseminated. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [adjective] > spread or diffused > widely wideOE rampanta1540 widespread1582 cheverel1583 worldwide1602 broada1616 ubiquitary1652 wide-spreading1655 broadcast1785 country-wide1845 statewide1848 nationwide1891 planetwide1920 society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > [adjective] > published or spread abroad publisheda1400 divulgatea1440 well-sunga1450 vulgate1513 promulgate1526 blazed1590 divulged1607 frequent1623 promulgated1657 announced1769 publicized1822 divulgated1842 outblown1851 vulgateda1861 circulated1867 broadcast1878 well-publicized1917 1825 J. Bentham Indications Respecting Ld. Eldon 78 Of this broadcast dissemination of uncertainty, one obvious cause may naturally be found in the profit made in the two great shops. 1843 J. B. Aycrigg Rep. Coast Surv. 77 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (27th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Doc. 170) It has pleased Mr. Aycrigg..to throw out the broadcast accusation, that I was mentally and physically incompetent to that task. 1878 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xviii. 135 The obscure story of the arrest and death of Gloucester will, it may be safely assumed, never be cleared up; and the depth of the darkness that covers it has inevitably been made the occasion of broadcast accusations and suspicions of every sort. 1909 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 7 Jan. 5/2 There was a manifest desire..to inaugurate definite measures for the broadcast advertising of the advantages of Waterloo as a manufacturing, investment and residential center. 2009 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 7 Feb. 100 At least one broadcast rumour has suggested that Ponting, too, has dressingroom issues. 3. a. Transmitted or disseminated by radio, television, etc., esp. as a mass communication to a large audience. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > [adjective] broadcast1922 broadcasted1923 transmissional1930 1922 Sandusky (Ohio) Star-Jrnl. 8 June 2/3 Rice..sees that the broadcast reports are received properly by farmers with radio receiving sets. 1936 Discovery Apr. 124/2 Mr Thornton's broadcast talks on exotic music are widely known. 1989 J. Honey Does Accent Matter? iii. 44 In a broadcast interview in 1981 he discussed the work of particular novelists. 2013 Oldie Apr. 10/1 The ASA says it can only look at the content of individual published or broadcast ads. 2017 Reason Mar. 56/1 Over the last few decades, as media markets segmented, the ratings for the three traditional broadcast news programs have declined. b. That transmits or broadcasts audio or visual material (esp. radio or television programmes) by radio, television, etc., esp. as a mass communication to a large audience. Also designating a person who works in radio or television broadcasting. Π 1922 Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 70/1 He has given us the ideal radio broadcast receiver. 1924 Washington Post 19 July 17/5 ‘The Radio Telescope or Directional Receiving’ by Dr Alfred N. Goldsmith, chief broadcast engineer. 1944 Proc. IRE 32 668/1 Design of directional antennas for broadcast stations to prevent skywave interference to another station. 1993 Paragraph Summer 40/2 Hay, a former broadcast journalist, loosely chronicles her experiences travelling in Latin America. 2012 N.Y. Mag. 21 May 60/1 Comedy, particularly on the broadcast networks, is..attracting the kind of younger audiences that advertisers lust after. 2018 W. Davies Nerv. States (2019) vii. 200 Mass democracy in the age of broadcast media involved grand public messages. Compounds broadcast storm n. Computing (in a network) an excess of automated transmissions and responses that leads to degradation of performance. Π 1988 AUUGN Oct. 155/1 A classic broadcast storm occurs when a large number of hosts respond almost simultaneously to a broadcast packet. 2012 MX (Melbourne) (Nexis) 30 Oct. (News section) 2 Our investigation has identified a network switch failure that caused a broadcast storm (that) creates countless transmissions, which, in the case of CityLink, utilised all the available computer capacity within the IT network. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022). broadcastv. Etymology: Formed as broad adj. + cast v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbroadcast. 1. To scatter (seed, etc.) abroad with the hand. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > sow seed [verb (transitive)] sowc1000 besowc1175 inseminate1623 to put in1657 sprain1744 shed1770 to get in1771 seminate1796 broadcast1807 seed1814 1807 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Essex I. vii. 333 They sow..the barley..spraining the first [half]; and broad-casting the second. 1836 Montgomery Poet's Portfolio 248 Sow in the morn thy seed..Broad-cast it o'er the land. 1846 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 7 ii. 591 It is preferable to broadcast the guano. 2. figurative. To scatter or disseminate widely. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publish or spread abroad [verb (transitive)] sowc888 blowc1275 dispeple1297 to do abroadc1300 fame1303 publyc1350 defamea1382 publisha1382 open?1387 proclaima1393 slandera1400 spreada1400 abroachc1400 throwc1400 to give outa1425 promote?a1425 noisec1425 publicc1430 noisec1440 divulgea1464 to put outc1475 skail1487 to come out witha1500 bruit1525 bruita1529 to bear out1530 divulgate1530 promulgate1530 propale?1530 ventilate1530 provulgate1535 sparple1536 sparse1536 promulge1539 disperse1548 publicate1548 forthtell1549 hurly-burly?1550 propagate1554 to set abroada1555 utter1561 to set forth1567 blaze1570 evulgate1570 scatter1576 rear?1577 to carry about1585 pervulgate1586 celebrate?1596 propalate1598 vent1602 evulge1611 to give forth1611 impublic1628 ventilate1637 disseminate1643 expose1644 emit1650 to put about1664 to send abroad1681 to get abroad1688 to take out1697 advertise1710 forward1713 to set abouta1715 circulate1780 broadcast1829 vent1832 vulgate1851 debit1879 float1883 1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm iv. 270 The doctrine of missionary zeal..has been broad-cast over Christendom. 1880 J. Ruskin Lett. to Clergy 369 Showing his detestation of the sale of indulgences by broadcasting these gratis from his pulpit. 3. To disseminate (a message, news, a musical or dramatic performance, or any audible or visible matter) from a radio or television transmitting station to the receiving sets of listeners and viewers; said also of a speaker or performer. Also absol.Inflected past tense and past participle broadcast (cf. broadcast adj. 3); occasionally broadcasted. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > [verb (transitive)] broadcast1921 programme1930 air1933 1921 Discovery Apr. 92/1 The [wireless] station at Poldhu is used partly for broadcasting Press and other messages to ships, that is, sending out messages without receiving replies. 1922 Daily Mail 8 Aug. 7/3 The largest and most powerful wireless station that can broadcast to the world. 1922 Daily Mail 11 Nov. 7 Government arrangements for broadcasting. 1924 Daily News 13 Dec. 6/7 The speech broadcast to our homes to-day. 1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xvi. 188 Coon-Sanders..and Henry Halstead broadcasted over the radio. Derivatives ˈbroadcasted adj. = broadcast adj. 3. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > [adjective] broadcast1922 broadcasted1923 transmissional1930 1923 Glasgow Herald 3 Feb. 8 In cities the ‘broadcasted’ entertainment can never prove a serious rival to the theatre and concert hall. 1924 Glasgow Herald 28 Aug. 7 The crowning event was the broadcasted evening service at Spurgeon's Tabernacle on Sunday. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.adv.adj.1707v.1807
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